Eighteenth-century London LifeJ. Murray, 1937 - 385 pages |
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Page 343
... popular . Women , too , were patrons of the novel . Men might read Fielding and Smollett , and some of the more robust novels , but Richardson and his imitators and the romantic school of Horace Walpole , Monk " Lewis and Mrs. Radcliffe ...
... popular . Women , too , were patrons of the novel . Men might read Fielding and Smollett , and some of the more robust novels , but Richardson and his imitators and the romantic school of Horace Walpole , Monk " Lewis and Mrs. Radcliffe ...
Page 344
... popular , and Walpole's Castle of Otranto was actually written as a sort of skit on the romantic novel . [ After the novel and the sermon perhaps the pamphlet had the largest circulation in early eighteenth - century London . Any man ...
... popular , and Walpole's Castle of Otranto was actually written as a sort of skit on the romantic novel . [ After the novel and the sermon perhaps the pamphlet had the largest circulation in early eighteenth - century London . Any man ...
Page 355
... popular , though there were superior musical critics who affected to despise them . Ordinary people loved them , as they embodied some of the old English songs . They have been described as a hotch - potch of French , Italian and ...
... popular , though there were superior musical critics who affected to despise them . Ordinary people loved them , as they embodied some of the old English songs . They have been described as a hotch - potch of French , Italian and ...
Contents
LONDONS ASPECTS AND CHARACTERISTICS | 8 |
MEANS OF COMMUNICATION | 26 |
THE LIFE OF THE UPPER CLASSES | 40 |
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